How do I rotate it back to normal? I need to turn it clockwise 90° so it’ll be back to normal. What do I do? Help!!!
Hold CTRL and ALT and press UP to go back to normal. If that doesn’t work, try CTRL ALT Left or Right, whichever is appropriate.
Ctrl-alt-up should fix you up.
Oh, thank god! That worked – you have saved me from a broken neck! 
The thread can end now, Mods. Thanks to the wonderful people around here!!!
What in the world are the chances?
Huh. I’d never heard of this and would really like to flip my screen upside down but CTRL-ALT-down does nothing (as suggested by this site), nor does CTRL-SHIFT-“r” as one of the commenters suggested for some Dells (this is a Dell).
Check out the other thread linked above to see if rotation is enabled on your PC - it’s fairly easy to enable or disable rotation. It’s also possible that your particular display adapter does not support rotation, and the only way to flip your screen is to physically invert the monitor.
This really is being a global mini-crisis… About a month ago, my neighbor came running over with her laptop because one of the kids “did something” to it and it was rotated 90 degrees.
I read about this as a prank on the boards, I tried it on a cow-orker and she actually tried physically rotating the monitor :dubious:
That’s actually possible on some monitors, such as the one I’m sitting at now.
How the fuck are you people even doing this?
What is the keystroke combination that will rotate my desktop?
These options have been around forever, but I’ve only ever seen them buried in the depths of a driver control panel.
How can this be done on “accident”?
Did you read the thread? I posted the shortcuts (which only apply to certain video cards, and then only if enabled) in the second post. Ctrl-Alt-right arrow isn’t that hard to hit by accident.
Yeah, I did. You missed the “certain video cards part” as well as the “only if enabled”, which brings up two or three other points.
Which cards do this, why is it enabled and why doesn’t your IT department have its shit together?